Strophodus lingualis

Woodward, 1889


Classification: Elasmobranchii Hybodontiformes Acrodontidae

Reference of the original description
Woodward, A.S. (1889)
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.

Types
Strophodus lingualis



Description:


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Strophodus lingualis sp. nov.; tooth, coronal aspect, [11158.]; 10, 11. Ditto ; two teeth, outer and coronal aspects, [28600.]; 12. Ditto; tooth, coronal aspect, Forost Marble; Malmesbury, Wiltshire. [32356.]

Description
Original description of Woodward, 1889 [2593]
1871. Strophodus lingualis, J. Phillips, Geol. Oxford, p. 177, diagr. xxxvii. fig. 8 (fig. only).
Type. Detached tooth; Oxford Mu-seum. The following teeth appear to belong to the same species as the tooth from the Stones-field Slate figured by Phillips (op.cit.), without description, under the name of Strophodus lin-gualis. The are of very small size, the principal teeth narrow and not measuring more than 0-018 in length; the coronal surface is very coarsely reticulated, the transverse markings being especially prominent; and there is occasionally a longitudinal ridge.
Form & Loc. Batho-nian: Oxfordshire and Wiltshire.
28600. Two longitudinally ridged teeth, one having a single eminence near one extremity (PI. XV. fig. 11), the other having two (PI. XV. fig. 10); Stonesfield Slate, Eyeford

Remarks
shark-references Species-ID=13223;
type species of Frangerodus Rees & Underwood, 2008 p. 138 [2555] by original designation (Art. 68.2 ICZN)

valid after Woodward (1889) p. 319 [2593];

synonym of Frangerodus lingualis after Rees & Underwood (2008) p. 138 [2555];

References
Woodward, A.S. (1890)
A Synopsis of the Fossil fishes of the English lower Oolites. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 11(6), 285–306
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7878(90)80030-4
Woodward, A.S. (1889)
Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum. Part. I. British Museum (Natural History): 474 p., fig., 17 pl.